 2 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Aggrandize \Ag"gran*dize\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Aggrandized}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Aggrandizing}.] [F. agrandir; ['a] (L. ad) +
grandir to increase, L. grandire, fr. grandis great. See
{Grand}, and cf. {Finish}.]
1. To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize
our conceptions, authority, distress.
2. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth;
-- applied to persons, countries, etc.
His scheme for aggrandizing his son. --Prescott.
3. To make appear great or greater; to exalt. --Lamb.
Syn: To augment; exalt; promote; advance.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "aggrandized":
accelerated, amplified, apotheosized, augmented, awesome,
ballyhooed, beatified, beefed-up, big, bloated, boosted, broadened,
canonized, deepened, deified, disproportionate, elevated, eminent,
enhanced, enlarged, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, exaggerated,
exalted, excellent, excessive, exorbitant, expanded, extended,
extravagant, extreme, glorified, grand, grandiloquent, great,
heightened, held in awe, high, high and mighty, high-flown, hiked,
hyperbolic, immortal, immortalized, increased, inflated,
inordinate, intensified, jazzed up, lofty, magnified, mighty,
multiplied, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic,
overestimated, overgreat, overlarge, overpraised, oversold,
overstated, overstressed, overwrought, prodigal, profuse,
proliferated, puffed, raised, reinforced, sainted, sanctified,
shrined, spread, stiffened, strengthened, stretched, sublime,
supereminent, superlative, swollen, throned, tightened, touted,
widened
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